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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf
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J"org wrote:
> 
> As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Of course, you should feel free to suggest to us any soloution which
> > does not require us to run named to implement.  And not feel free to
> > suggest running named.
> 
> It doesn't require named to run.  I have reconstructed your setup, and
> proven that my named doesn't get any request if the setup is done
> correctly.  As i've mentioned, the only pitfall was specifying
> localhost without adding the local domain, and with 127.1 instead of
> 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.

 Umm... I have 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts and continue to experience
the problem...

	- Dave R. -